Lexicon apheidia: unsparing treatment Original Word: ἀφειδία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: apheidia Phonetic Spelling: (af-i-dee'-ah) Short Definition: severity Definition: severity, severe treatment. HELPS word-Studies 857 apheidía – (from 1 /A "not" and 5339 /pheídomai, "to spare") – properly, unsparing severity, referring to a "severe form of self-control" based on an ascetic, unsparing attitude" (L & N, 1, 88.90). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and pheidomaiDefinitionunsparing treatment NASB Translationsevere treatment (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 857: ἀφειδίᾳἀφειδίᾳ ( ἀφειδεια Lachmann, see under the word εἰ, ἰ), ἀφειδιας, ἡ (the disposition of a man who is ἀφειδής, unsparing), unsparing severity: with the genitive of the object, τοῦ σώματος, Colossians 2:23 ( τῶν σωμάτων ἀφείδειν, Lysias 2, 25 (193, 5); Diodorus 13, 60; 79 etc. (see Lightfoot on Colossians, the passage cited); in Plato, defin., p. 412 d. ἀφειδίᾳ means liberality).
Strong's neglect. From a compound of a (as a negative particle) and pheidomai; unsparingness, i.e. Austerity (asceticism) -- neglecting. see GREEK a see GREEK pheidomai |
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